“Place, Manner, Time…. “ – works for voice, live electronics and multiple speakers
Kristin Norderval – Voice, live electronics, wireless controllers
Gerriet K. Sharma – Live electronics, IKO 3D speaker
Anja Hertenberger – Performance, Interactive textiles
Mar Pino-Charlez – Voice, wireless controllers
A concert of works developed to resonate the space with the acoustic voice and through multiple speakers including the IKO 3D speaker, hemispherical speakers, and specially designed micro-speakers created from metallic thread coils.
Kristin Norderval has been investigating the challenges of designing live electronic processing for opera singers. Kristin is an Artistic Research Fellow at the National Academy of Opera in Norway and is on exchange this year at the Institute of Sonology in Den Haag. Her research involves the development of real-time audio-processing environments that accommodate the operatic voice on its own terms. Kristin’s ultimate goals are twofold: to identify a sound design that affords a balance between the unamplified, embodied operatic voice and its sampled, processed and disembodied voice(s), and to design an audio processing system that facilitates mobility and allows performers to manipulate their own voice in real-time, independent of a visual interface.
This year in Den Haag Kristin has been exploring how an interactive audio processing system that creates pseudo-randomized permutations of the singer´s voice can function as a digital improvising partner for classical singers, balancing between chaos and control, predictability and surprise. She has been refining controller mappings that rely on aural and haptic cues, and investigating multiple sound designs and loudspeaker systems.
For Saturday´s concert Kristin has invited Berlin-based composer Gerriet K. Sharma to join her, along with interactive textile artist Anja Hertenberger, and the young Spanish opera singer, Mar Charlez Pino. Anja Hertenberger worked with Kristin earlier this year and developed a way to receive mediated vocals wirelessly to tiny embroidered coil speakers and transport them in the palm of her hand. On the macro level, Gerriet K. Sharma has been developing and composing for the IKO 3D Audio Speaker by IEM & Sonible: a 20-sided compact speaker system based on Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) that offers a very different way of working with spatialized sound. With the use of complex algorithms, the IKO is able to send focused sound beams in any direction. Using wall and ceiling reflections to establish a distinct sound space in any location, it can produce high quality immersive sound even in small spaces. Kristin and Gerriet have been working together with the classical voice students from the Royal Conservatory to explore live processing of the operatic mediated voice in the IKO environment.
Saturday´s concert will be followed on May 8 by a research presentation at Studio Loos from 12.30-15.30
LINKS to Kristin´s work with wireless motion controllers & to the IKO 3d speaker:
https://artisticresearchweek.khio.no/2021/01/20/flying-blind-kristin-norderval/#